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Mattia

I like them all, very nice indeed.

[QUOTE=Mattia Valente] I've never seen Brazilian on sale at Madinter's website, and they're a smaller player. Maderas Barber's the '500 lb gorilla' of the spanish suppliers, I think. [/QUOTE]

Yes, it was Maderas Barber, not Madinter, that was the wood supplier that came under the scrutiny of 'Los Officiales' for their BRW sales...

Rich

It's one of my favorites. Some of it is so much like BRW, it's almost undetectable. If it weren't for the smell, I couldn't tell it apart.

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Jimmy Caldwell
http://www.caldwellguitars.com

Stunning!

Jimmy - thats a great set right there!

I've come to really love Madagascar Rosewood, and in my experience it makes for excellent instruments. Its a nightmare to pore fill, and it can be a bit brittle, but those are its only drawbacks.

LMI gets theirs from Nagel in Hamburg. Its possible to get the stuff cheap and resaw it yourself, but it appears Nagel and LMI have some kind of monopoly over it.

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Instagram: @jfrenchluthier
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There are other sources....

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Joshua,

I got this stuff from Steve @ Colonial. Steve's great to do business with and has a really good selection of old-growth woods. This one's a two piece back and it looks even better in person than in the picture. I paired it with an adirondack top and I've got really high hopes for it. It's at Josh Luttrell's being finished right now. I'll have it back sometime next week.

I've seen LMI's sets and they are beautiful with the intense spider webbing. They're doing 4 pc. backs because the logs are so small. They must be really hard to get because they're very often out of the highest grades.

Sometime when you're up this way, come on by. There's no surfing here, but we've always got the lake.

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Jimmy Caldwell
http://www.caldwellguitars.com

[QUOTE=Jimmy Caldwell]
I've seen LMI's sets ... [snip]... they must be really hard to get because they're very often out of the highest grades.
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It is because I have a serious weakness for this wood.   

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

I just saw a nice set of Madagascar Rosewood this afternoon being sold by Beachtonewood on eBay....it looks awesome!

Guys the stuff you are showing sure looks pretty!

Hi All

I just got Allieds weekly specials email. They have some nice Madrose on there.

http://www.alliedlutherie.com/weekly.htm?jrl=5464&clk=29808

[QUOTE=RussellR] Hi All

I just got Allieds weekly specials email. They have some nice Madrose on there.

http://www.alliedlutherie.com/weekly.htm?jrl=5464&clk=29808[/QUOTE]

That Bois D' Rose is pretty sweet too. :-)

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

[QUOTE=Brock Poling] [QUOTE=RussellR] Hi All

I just got Allieds weekly specials email. They have some nice Madrose on there.

http://www.alliedlutherie.com/weekly.htm?jrl=5464&clk=29808[/QUOTE]

That Bois D' Rose is pretty sweet too. :-)[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I was just drooling over their specials page too. Tell me, do you guys think a mortgage payment has precedence over tonewoods?

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

I emailed that supplier mentioned above in europe. It is 200 - 250 to have a few sets shipped to me.

Bummer... this is nice wood too.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com